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[jira] Commented: (HDFS-826) Allow a mechanism for an application to detect that datanode(s) have died in the write pipeline

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:23:34 GMT

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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-826:
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Hauirong: it makes the application code easier when the getNumCurrentReplicas() return the
expected number of replicas when there isn't a pipeline. This also makes the API somewhat
opaque to pipeline-setup internals.
> Allow a mechanism for an application to detect that datanode(s) have died in the write
pipeline
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> Key: HDFS-826
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-826
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: hdfs client
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Attachments: Replicable4.txt, ReplicableHdfs.txt, ReplicableHdfs2.txt, ReplicableHdfs3.txt
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> HDFS does not replicate the last block of the file that is being currently written to
by an application. Every datanode death in the write pipeline decreases the reliability of
the last block of the currently-being-written block. This situation can be improved if the
application can be notified of a datanode death in the write pipeline. Then, the application
can decide what is the right course of action to be taken on this event.
> In our use-case, the application can close the file on the first datanode death, and
start writing to a newly created file. This ensures that the reliability guarantee of a block
is close to 3 at all time.
> One idea is to make DFSOutoutStream. write() throw an exception if the number of datanodes
in the write pipeline fall below minimum.replication.factor that is set on the client (this
is backward compatible).
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